Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in 2015: ‘The Scottish Patient Safety Programme, marks Scotland as a leader, second to no nation on earth, in its commitment to reducing harm to patients, dramatically and continually.’

Now, to add further evidence, we have a Bank of Scotland report today saying that most are no longer planning job cuts, were more optimistic about recruiting and that the huge finds to the west of Shetland were ‘causes for great excitement’ for them. Bear in mind the inherent conservatism or canniness among business people when something good appears to be happening and you’ll know things are probably getting better and getting better faster than the report suggests.